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Re: nothing important

Date:

Thu, 23 Nov 2006 20:03:52 +0100

From:

"Anders Jonsson" <gt3TakeThisAway@bredband.net>

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> this is simply not true. perhaps some people will not upgrade (not
> important), or will upgrade much later. but if there's no other
> alternative
> few years later, they have to upgrade - to something (regardless what).
I was just speculating. I guess that there might be some rather large
companies and organizations that are still relying on old software for some
vital parts of their businesses. I think there will always be a risk (seen
from MS) that these companies chose another OS next time (Linux or Mac),
especially when there are solutions to run virtual machines to keep the old
windows/DOS apps.
If you look at the past, MS has always been very keen to keep backward
compatibility - maybe that is about to change, but I'm not so sure.
Anders